SAULSPOORT DAM THE MUSICAL

The Day That Painted Worker’s Day Black With Grief

SAULSPOORT DAM THE MUSICAL is a stunning and stirring

production focusing on the hopes, dreams, and aspirations

of the passengers, who each boarded with stories and

personal ambitions of their own.

In the early hours of 1 May 2003, the rainbow bus, on her

voyage from Kimberley to QwaQwa, took a wrong turn,

plunged and slowly sank into the cold and dark waters of the

free state It was one of the most tragic disasters of the 21st

century in the country. 51 men and women lost their lives in

a watery death beneath the Bethlehem River.

Based on real people, some indulging in holy waters that

brought happiness aboard the chanting and singing bus. All

innocently unaware of the fate awaiting them

Epic and majestic with moments of heart breaking intimacy,

SAULSPORT DAM captures the lives and tragedy of the

hopeful passengers on the bus to the may day rally

celebrations.